Babalon Launching
A scholarly essay on the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons.
Secret Earths
A catalog essay on the contemporary reframing of animism, from an art show devoted to rare earth elements.
Archive Fever
My latest Arthur column, on MP3 mania
Technomancer: PKD
An overview of Philip K. Dick written back in the day
Let There Be Q
A look at the spiritual ad campaign for Motorola's hip new handheld
The Joy of Sticks
A review of Van Burnham's fascinating Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984.
Game Over: the Mutation of Pinball
A brief history of the evolution and decline of one of the twentieth centurys liveliest machines.
The Soft Machine
An alchemical Deleuzian ode to a kiddie goop toy called Gak; perhaps my maddest piece.
Mars Gone Wild
Millions of amateur astronomers have pored over pictures of the Red Planet. Experience the thrill of discovery - or self-delusion - for yourself!
Forging the Dragonslayer
Futuristic cyber-mettalurgy meets the ancient alchemical art of the forge.
Barbed Wired Net
Dispatches from the Net in the days following the destruction of the Albert Murrah Federal Building in 1995.
It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World
Anthropological notes from a summer of MUD addiction, circa 1993.
Space 1994
A media-saturated essay of the curious conjunction of the comet-Jupiter collision with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Apollo 11.
Into the Myst
A look at the classic computer game and its religious and mythic underpinnings.
Surfing the Indranet
Philosophical encounters between the sage Lance Daybreak and his Buddhist computer interface.
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